Release day: Vampire State of Mind

Today is the official release of Vampire State of Mind by Jane Lovering (paperback, Choc Lit). Here’s the blurb:

Jessica Grant knows vampires only too well. She runs the York Council tracker programme making sure that Otherworlders are all where they should be, keeps the filing in order and drinks far too much coffee. To Jess, vampires are annoying and arrogant and far too sexy for their own good, particularly her ex-colleague Sil, who’s now in charge of Otherworld York. But when a demon turns up and threatens not just Jess but the whole world order, she and Sil are forced to work together, and when Jess turns out to be the key to saving the world it puts a very different slant on their relationship. The stakes are high. They are also very, very pointy and Jess isn’t afraid to use them, even on the vampire that she’s rather afraid she’s falling in love with …

Jane dropped by today to tell us a little about this book:

Having read far more vampire novels than is good for anybody, I found myself wondering many things – for example, if a vampire falls in love with a human, how long is it going to last, really? I mean, after around sixty years, he’s going to find himself shackled to something that looks like Yoda, and nobody wants that, do they? And why should the human have to become a vampire just to keep the object of their love? Vampires, if they really existed, would be top of the food chain. All that superhuman strength and speed – wouldn’t they just wipe us mere humans off the face of the world (apart from some tasty morsels that is)? What would stop them running the whole show and humans being nothing but powerless adjuncts? And then I came up with the answer – the local Council, obviously. And lots of paperwork. So my take on the vampire/human world is rather different: the vampires are slightly old-fashioned and rather obsessive about things, and the humans drink too much coffee and worry about the rent. I like to think it’s how things would really be; the Children of the Night having to learn to draw the curtains and not disturb the neighbours…

You can find out more about the book at Jane’s website and buy it at Collins.

All ARRA members who comment on this post will go in the draw to win a copy of this book. Giveaway closes 22 October 2012. (The winner was Natalie)

Jane, I went to Amazon to put it on my Wish List and as it was reasonably priced I pressed that alluring button and “whispernet” delivered it to my door. And I loved it! Are you going to write more books set in that world? Please do!
Cheers

Excellent news, Shiona – I hope you enjoy reading it. And, yes, Vampire State of Mind is the first of a trilogy of books all featuring the same characters…I’m busy working on the follow-up as we speak!

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